BREAKING: Egypt court revokes death sentence for Sinai militant Habara; orders retrial

An Egyptian court of cassation cancelled on Saturday the death sentence for North Sinai Islamist militant Adel Habara and six others in the case known as “Rafah’s second massacre, “ordering a retrial.

In December, Cairo Criminal Court issued death sentences against Habara and six others for carrying out an execution-style killing of 25 policemen in an ambush in Sinai in August 2013.

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